Chapter 25 - Azria: The land of future and past -

"It's cold here." said Lari. Sam sighted. "I told you so to take warm clothes with you." "So where are we going now?" asked MrBored. The group stooth in the middle of a bridge that leaded over a river. Everywhere around them there were white hills. Snow white hills. Sometimes a tree popped up out of the hills. "Are you sure that there are monsters here?" asked Sven. "First we should make a camp near the place where we are going to train." Said Toro. "And... Where are we going to train?" asked Foloya. David turned his face to the south. "Somewhere there. A Mutant Augu spawn should be hiding behind that hills there." "Mutant Augus?" asked Sven. "Mutant Augus used to live in the river but there they couldn't find enough food so they headed towards land to find better food to eat." said Smoer. "I wish there were more trees here..." sighted Foloya sad. They walked over the bridge to the south. It was very quiet in Azria. You could only hear their feet on the fresh snow that made a crackling sound. The wind blew soft. "I'm still cold." said Lari sudden. "Maybe you should ask Sven for a hug to warm you up." said Neocro. "You're lucky that I'm too frozen to swing my sword to you." "If you do that then my axe will hit you before your sword has even a chance to hit Neocro." said Toro. "I really want to try that out." said Lari. "Don't Lari," said MrBored annoyed. "Save your powers for the training that we'll do today." Lari smiled. "Yes, finaly we can fight again against monsters." The group passed some hills with a tree on it. Foloya used her fastwalker and disappeared into the tree. A bit later she popped up on the top. ";Hi, are that there Mutant Augus there?" asked Foloya. "I see weird blue monsters there." "That are normal Augus probably." said Smoer. "We're still close by the river, mutants live further from the river." The group continued walking. "Is it still far?" asked Lari. "We should be close now." said David. Foloya ran away again with her fast walker and disappeared in another tree. "David is right I think, I see the same formed monsters like I saw before but this ones are yellow!" Neocro used also her fastwalker and climbed on the hill. "Woaw," said Neocro. "This are alot monsters..." "I want to see them too!" shouted Lari from the bottom of the hill. "Come here then!" laughed Neocro. Lari started to run on the hill. "I wish I had a fastwalker skill like you do..." said Lari when she reached the top. When she saw the huge spawn of Mutant Augus her eyes started to sparkle. "So... many... of them..." The others came on the top too. Everyone was impressed by the huge spawn, except David and Toro. They saw this already before. "Sam, buff me please! Let's start training." commanded Lari. Sam swinged her stick to buff Lari. Then they ran down the hill to start an AoE. The others started to build the camp.

This was how their first day in Azria started. When the camp was set up Sven, MrBored, Neocro and Foloya ran to the monsters too. Toro followed the group and tried to fight again, altought the monsters were way too weak for him, he had to practice again after he got hurt by the Blue Meteonyker. Toro smiled when he heared the surprising voices of the fighters when they saw the drops. The Mutant Augus dropped alot more money as the monsters in Madrigal did. Also, they dropped alot items. Everyone was in a great mood cause that. David and Smoer sat on the hill near the camp and watched over the valley. They hold eachothers hands and talked. After a few hours Neocro put herself down. She trained for a long time now and she wanted to take a break. Toro put himself near her. "So, how do you like it here?" "It's amazing here." said Neocro. Toro smiled. "I think everyone thinks like that." Neocro nodded. "They are so happy with the money, items and the great experience you can get here." "Yes, that's how Azria monsters are. They don't mind giving alot to their killers." said Toro. "But not only they are happy, look to Smoer and David." Neocro looked up on the hill to the camp. Smoer and David were talking and smiling. Toro got up. "Want to go take a walk with me trough Azria?" Neocro smiled. "Sure!" Toro reached out his hand to Neocro. Together they walked away.

"Tell me." Smoer looked to David. "Tell you what?" asked David. He looked over the white hills of Azria. "Tell me your story David." David looked curiously to Smoer. He smiled. "Fine..." David took a deep breath and stared to the blue sky. "My story started a few years ago. I made a characted and started to hit the poor Aibatts. I knew already from the beginning that I had to choose for a job with intelligence. I could choose between Assist and Magician. Beeing a helper or concentrate full 100% on my intelligence. When I reached level 15 I was sure that I would choose for Magician. I did the Quests that should lead me to reach my first Job. Then I took a Blinkwing back to Sain City." Smoer closed her eyes. The story of David started.

Today was the day. He arrived by the magician trainer, out of breath. 'You are now a Magician!' appeared on David his screen. David smiled, but his smile disappeared pretty fast. Black spots appeared in front of his eyes. David felt how the ground came closer. Everything turned black.
When David woke up again, he felt a hand on his fronthead. He opened his eyes. An old woman was leaning over David, she was wearing pink clothes. David wanted to get up but the woman pushed him back on the ground. David realised that he should be scared. He was only 12 years old, alone and a strange old woman was leaning over him. But... He couldn't be scared. He stared to the woman who cave him a bottle. Without asking questions he drank the bottle empty. Inmidiately he felt stronger. David got up. "Thank you." said David. The woman gave no reaction, she just smiled. "Can I ask you who you are?" asked David. The woman her lips moved. "Laola." said the woman quiet. Then she turned around and walked calm away. "Hi!" shouted David. The woman stopped and turned her head to David. "We'll meet again, David." Then she disappeared into the crowd of Sain City. David stared confused to the place where she disappeared. He hadn't told her his name.

"Where were you?" asked Lari. "Walking around..." said Toro. "Alone?" asked Sven. "I went with Neocro." said Toro. Everyone looked around. "Did you lost her on your walk?" asked Lari. "Oops..." said Neocro. Sudden she was standing near Toro. "I keep forgetting about Dark illusion." Foloya laughed. "You should be happy that you are here, Neocro. I wouldn't trust Toro in a place like this. He might've gotton lost." Toro glared. "We stayed close, I wanted to be close for if something happened." "What can happen here..." asked MrBored. "It's so peaceful here." David and Smoer came closer. "This is how it looks." said David. "The storms come without any warning." Sam, Sven and MrBored looked scared to the sky. "You shouldn't scare them, David." said Toro. "The storms mostly come at night." "Early night." said Smoer. "We should better hide in our tents." Smoer turned around and climbed on the hill. David followed. The others looked surprised but followed the two Magicians. When everyone finaly managed to get in the tent, even Larimar who wanted to continue training, Sven made a little fire in the middle of the tent. "Want me to continue?" asked David while he put himself down near Smoer. "Continue what?" asked Neocro. "He's telling about his past." said Smoer. Everyone looked to David. "Continue!" said Sven. David laughed. "Fine, fine."

David walked trough the shops in Darken, searching. Sudden he started to smile when he saw a boy of his age. The boy was busy selling alot items. "Nami!" shouted David. Namikazu looked to the direction of where he heared his name. "David!" shouted Nami when he recognised his friend. "Or do I have to say, Magician Infinty?" The boys laughed. Sudden Nami handed over a small bag of money to David. "Go buy new clothes and weapons." He winked. David looked thankful to Nami and ran away.

David walked proud trough Saint Morning. Training went great and he never fainted anymore. He passed Pumpkintown and walked into the direction of Giggle Boxes. He'd spend the whole day training there. When David saw the first Giggle Boxes appearing, he saw also something else. There were standing 3 bigger boys, who looked also pretty strong, around a girl. Anger took slowly control over his mind when he saw that the boys were hitting the girl soft and pulled at her, what looked like brand new, clothes. When David came closer he made his voice sound louder. "Leave her alone." For a moment David was shocked from how strong and commanding his voice sounded. Was that really him? The 3 boys turned and looked to David. The girl felt on the ground. "And who are you, little?" asked one of the boys. "I'm Infinty. Let her go." said David, repeating what he said before. The 3 boys started to laugh. "What are you going to do about it, 'hurt' us? Or wait! You'll hypnose us with your 'commanding' voice" They boys started to laugh even louder. They are right, tought David. What could he do exactly? He didn't know that many skills yet. "I'll use my staff and use one of my powerfull spells." said David, hoping that the boys couldn't hear the fear in his voice. One of the boys started to walk to David. "Listen to me, little, ..." A magic ball hit the boy and he got trowen on the ground. David looked surprised to his Staff and then to the boy. The 2 other boys ran to his friend. "He's dead!" said one surprised. The second one got up and ran to David. But even before he could hit David with his big axe, David fainted. Everything was black in front of his eyes.

The members of Twilight Dentifrice sat sleepy into the big tent around the campfire that Sven made. When David refused to tell more that evening, they talked about alot random subjects. Sudden Lari took the attention. "We will be level 90 soon if we keep training as good as now." Sven nodded. "Level 90 is fun!" "Why?" asked Sam. "We can wear new sets at level 90." said Lari. "But we don't have alot money..." said MrBored. "Guys, watch to your items that you found today and tell me what you got." MrBored took out some boots. "Rasra boots." "Good," said David. "You can give them to Neocro." MrBored trew the boots to Neocro. "I have a Dayst helmet." said Lari. "That's for MrBored." said Toro. "I got a Weeshian helmet! It looks like it's for Lari." said Sven. Lari opened her hands and smiled to Sven. "10 millions and it's yours." said Sven. "What?!" asked Lari. "That's not fair. Trow me the helmet!" The others started to laugh. They kept taking out items of their inventory. Lari got all Weeshian parts. MrBored got all Dayst parts. Neocro got all Rasra parts. Sven all Akent parts and Smoer got all Gynas parts. "Why does Sam get nothing?" asked Lari. "Sam will be fine with her Flury set until level 105." said David. The sets weren't complete but there were alot days to go to find the other parts. That night there was a storm outside, but no one noticed.

The next morning David also ran of the hill to start training with the others. Smoer walked by his side. Everyone looked scared when David started to take alot monsters. "Don't die!" said Toro. "I might start to smile then." Neocro punched Toro. But David didn't die. His windfield made the monsters run slower so he had time to run and do his spell again. It took pretty long but he killed alot monsters. "Isn't that really really tiring?" asked MrBored between killing 2 Augus. Smoer shaked his head. "He keeps his mind and body in control. That makes it not tiring for him." MrBored made a weird face. Lari laughed. "I don't like that spirital stuff either Bored, I'm much more happy to face this monsters with my own strenght power!"

Days passed by in Azria. Everyone managed to get his or her full level 90 set after already a few days. Now they only had to get level 90 to wear it. The young Heroes of Twilight Dentifrice trained hard during the day, even Smoer and David. They were all busy becoming a true Hero, except David who was becoming a 'God'. Toro watched mostly. His wounds got healed. Sometimes he stayed away for a day with Neocro. They went to a spawn of Mammoths closeby.

"I want to go too!" said Lari angrly. "Ofcourse, Lari. And then I have to run behind you to save you. I prefere going with Neocro. Thanks." Foloya laughed. "Did you say that you'd save Lari? I think Neocro goes only with you to save you." "Foloya..." said Toro suddenly serious. "It's not your duty doing this..." Foloya stopped laughing. "What do you mean?" "It's not your duty, making fun of me." Foloya walked to Toro and pat on his back. "I know, peanut, but someone has to do it..." Toro sighted. Foloya laughed and started to AoE monsters again. At evenings David continued his story. It was becoming a habbit that David told about his past while they sat all close by eachother around the campfire. The voice of David calmed everyone down. When David ended they mostly fell asleep. Then the storms outside started, the storms that no one noticed.

David groaned. Laola was leaning over him. Without hesistating David grabbed the bottle that Laola reached him. "Do I only see you when I faint?" asked David. Laola smiled. Then David looked around him and remembered what happened before he fainted. "T-the boy... I k-killed him..." Laola put her hand on David his shoulder. "Don't worry. The girl you tried to protect told me what happened. Still, it's not good to attack other players, David." "But... How did I kill him?" asked David. Laola reached her hand to David and pulled him up. "David... Maybe it's time you come with me." David looked unsure to Laola. "Where are we going then?" "To my house." said Laola. She gave a Darkon Blinkwing to David. David looked to it. He hesistated. "Darkon... I'm not strong enough." "I'll be with you." said Laola quiet. That was enough for David. Laola would be with him. It felt alright.
A bit later he arrived in Darken. Laola took his hand and leaded him trough the crowd. She leaded him to the north of the small city. Then she took a broom out of her bag. "Come, jump behind me." David looked to the small broom. "I never flied before." said David. "That's why you have to come on my broom." said Laola. David hesistated but climbed on the broom, behind Laola. "Trow your hands around me, David. I don't want to lose you while flying." She pushed her feet on the ground and trew herself in the air. David looked shocked around him. It was new for him. Laola moved her broom to a cage. "Is it save to fly in a cage?" asked David. "I'm with you, David. Nothing can happen." David swallowed. Laola and David flied trough a big gate, trough a labyrint of plants untill they reached another gate. Laola slowed down. They reached a forest with high trees. The air felt fresh, so clean. David breathed. This was a nice place. It also didn't surprise David that Laola landed near a big tree. He knew Laola would live on a place like this.

David entered Laola her house. It was small. The walls were filled with books. Only one wall had a place for a small fireplace. David looked curiously around. Why did Laola took her to a place like this? Why did she take him to this place, why him? Laola pointed with her wand to the fireplace. The wooden blocks started to burn. Then she pointed to a sofa. "Please, sit down." David felt uncomfortable. why was he here...? Laola walked past the walls, she seemed to search a book. Suddenly she took a book out of the wall and walked to David. "David... Please read the first page." David looked to the book. Why was he here, why did Laola gave her a book, why... He opened the book and started to read. 'Introduction. There exist many legends in Madrigal. Some are just fantasy, some are true. This legend is a truth. It's the legend of the Hamnas. Hambas are halfgods. All new Heroes in Madrigal get the task to become a true Hero to protect Madrigal. Only a few get another task. Their task is to become a God. Those few of us got called Hambas. They get born in Madrigal and their life in Madrigal is a big test. A test to proove if they can be a God. While their body gets really old their mind stays youngh. Their brain absorbs every kind of information that they can get. When their bodies die, and their spirit is ready, they can start their job as a God.' David looked up. "I've heared this before." said David. He stared to the fire. "But... I can't remember when, or where..." "I tought so." said Laola. She smiled. "Why do you look so happy?" said David. "I found you, David." "What do you mean...?" asked David. He was totaly confused by this situation. "I want to go outside." said David. "You're the one I've been looking for, for years, David." David let fall the book and stooth up. He walked to the door. Loala put her hand on his shoulder. "Please... Wait." David looked to Laola. "I want to go outside." Loala didn't let him go. "I need you, David." said Laola. "Please... Let me go." Laola swallowed. Then she let her hand go. "Come back when you want, David. I'll tell you everything you want to know. I'll help you with everything. I'll do everything for you. Just, please, come back." David looked to the ground and walked outside. When the door closed behind him, he started to run.

Everyone was quiet. No one dared to say a word. David stared into the fire. Smoer put her hand on David his shoulder. Then she looked to the others. They got what Smoer meant and grabbed their blankets to sleep. They all fell fast asleep, except David. He stared the whole night to the fire.